Word: provocateur
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...plan was eventually divided into three principal sections--Old Left, New Left and Black Nationalism. The Old Left G-Men were responsible for covering the Communist Party and the Socialist Workers Party. New Left operatives may well have included in their ranks the infamous "Tommy the Traveller," an agent provocateur working out of Hobart, Cornell and other colleges during the late sixties. The Black Activism unit focused on the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Black Panthers, and other groups. Their handiwork included the infiltration of Malcolm X's organization by a man who soon became the black leader...
...early hours of the 15th of November, the coordinating committee had to provide for the daily life of all the students who locked themselves in the Institute, handling everything from food and security to maintenance of the facilities. The first actions of the Committee were directed against the provocateurs and government spies inside the Institute, who had started writing "Down with the State," "Down with Authority," on the walls to give an anarchist image to the movement. The anarchist or provocateur elements which student leaders said were planted by government also controlled a radio station from which they transmitted messages...
Defense attorneys began cross-examination of Lemmer at week's end hoping to undermine his credibility by trying to prove that he has a history of mental disorders, a charge Lemmer vehemently denies. The defense would also like to show that Lemmer acted as an agent provocateur as well as an informer, planting the very type of plans he says the veterans developed. Finally, they may point out to the jury that Lemmer himself calls the disruption scheme only a "contingency plan...
...cash. This line of inquiry by the grand jury could also implicate Dwight Chapin, who has admitted arranging the hiring of Segretti, and Gordon Strachan, who also helped recruit the agent provocateur...
Burn. Gillo Pontecorso of Battle of Algiers fame directed this Marxist-Fanonian Parable of revolution on a Portuguese-colonized island in the Caribbean in the mid nineteenth century. The story cluntsily parallels Vietnam, the Phillipines, et al., but Marlon Brando gives a superb performance as a British mercenary agent provocateur, and the direction is sensuously beautiful. With Vlva Zapsta. Elia Kazan's exciting but absurd film of a John Steinbeck script, full of take feeling for the Mexican little guy. Still, there's a young, dynamic Brando as Emiliano, and Anthony Quinn as his brother. ORSON WELLES CINEMA ONE. Call...